‘They all just want to get healthy!’ Drinking the Qur’an between forming religious and medical subjectivities in Zanzibar
This article investigates how the practice of drinking kombe (drinking washed off Qur’anic verses) informs subjectivities in the nexus of ‘religion’, ‘medicine’ and their Swahili approximations dini and dawa. Situated in Zanzibar, it is mostly referred to as dawa ya kiislamu, bringing ‘medicine’ and...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Journals Online & Print: | Drawer...
|
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
Sage Publ.
[2017]
|
| In: |
Journal of material culture
Year: 2017, Volume: 22, Issue: 4, Pages: 453-475 |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (Verlag) |